Oleo-stock clarifier, seeder, and breaker.



G. L. NOBLEP OLEO STOCK CLARIFIER, SEEDER, AND BREAKER. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 15. I9l6, 1 w fiwu Patented Sept. 25, 191?.

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G. L. NOBLE.

OLEO STOCK CLARIFIER, SEEDER, AND BREAKER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 15, 1916.

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To all whom it may concern: I Be it known that I, GUY L. NOBLE, acititago, in the county of Cook-and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in'Oleo-Stock Clarifiers,

Seeders, and Breakers, of which the follow-- ing; is a specification.

In the manufacture of oleo oil for use in the preparation of various edible products such as oleomargarin, .it is of the greatest importance that allof the steps shall be strictest regard for sanitary conditions and for questions of ecolnomy in time and labor, space and materia It is usual in this art for the beef fat or suet to be rendered at a temperature of approximately 150 to 160 degrees, the resultant liquid product being drawn It is then allowed to stand for some time at a temperature of about der that the water and ted toseparate, not; The water oil may be permithavingbeen drawn off, the

liquid stearin and oleo'are allowed to stand m a room heated to approximately 90 degrees for three or four days during which it cools and becomes semi-solid and under-' goes an aging or seeding process. .At

the end of the aging period the material has locally separated into stearin and oleo, globules of the latter being scattered throughout brought into proper shape for the filter presses, it is important that the stearin and oleo be broken, that is to say intimately mixed without rupturing thesteari'n crystals so that the mass may be presented to the cloths of the filter press in .a homogeneous condition.

-Heretofore it has been customary, after rendering, in order to keep the material at the proper temperature during clarifying,

to allow the tank containing the same to stand for a considerable length of time, the contents of the-tank, being maintained by means of a hot water jacket at-about 140 degrees; and after clarifying to transfer the contents of the tank to a tank truck ina room maintained at a temperature of about 90 degrees for aging. or seeding. This involves the regulation of the temperature of the rooms and a manual shifting of Specification ofLetters Patent. I Application filed November 15,1916. Serial No.

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140 degrees in orthus clarifying the prodnot sanitary especially in hot In order-that it may now be Patented Sept. 25, 191i "3.

the tanks from place to place and a trans- I er of the material from one container to another. Much unnecessary time is' thus consumed-asa large body of material cools slowly and several days bring the interior of the mass to the? room temperature and to effect the necessary aging, there is also aloss of material in the transfer and cleansing of being open 'to the objection that the seeding is non-uniform by reason of the exterior portion of the tank contents having cooled while the interior is still hot.

Moreover, by reason of the dificulty of devising a oughly mixing the mass within these large rectangular tanks, as previously employed, it has been customary for the'men to plunge their arms into'the tanks and by means of their hands and fingers stir-the same thoroughly in all partsof the tank after aging for thepurpose of breaking the same u preparatory to pressing. Obviously this 1s weather, and one object of the resent invention has been the designing of a mechanical appliance whichwould effect this breaking of the ma terial asthoroughly and efliciently as the human hand.

By the apparatus of the the material is at no time hand, and remains in the time it is rendered until it goesto' the f lter press, the several steps of clarifying, aging or seeding and breaking being performed in One and the same tank, at ordinary temperaturesv without necessitating the special heating'of a room for the pur ose and in much less time than has hereto ore been possible by reason of the heating and cooling of the same quickly and more uniforml by tempresent invention,

perature modifying means supplied to the interior of the mass, while the same is rotected from, external temperature conditlons by insulation.

:a basis for the detailed description immediately followin Obviously, however, the inventlon may e embodied in other and varied constructional forms, Wherefore the handled with the' one tank from the are necessary to the tanks, besides mechanical appliance for thore same is set forth in the accompany- 7 description and drawing are to be taken in an illustrative and not-in an unnecessarily limiting sense.

In the drawing: Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section throhgh one embodiment of the invention Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section on posed and provided above with an inlet at 13 equipped with a strainer 14 through which the rendered material is introduced to the interior of the tank. A hollow shaft 15 extends axially of the tank through stuffing boxes 16 and 17, said shaft being s'up plied alternatively with hot water from the header 18 through the pipe 19, or. with steam through the pipe 20 or cold water through the pipe 21, the said hollow shaft having an outlet at 22, each of the pipes being suitably valved in order to control the flow of the fluid therethro-ugh.

the interior of the tank is a pipe coil composed of inner and outer convolutions 23 and 24 surrounding the pipe and revolving therewith as the said shaft is driven from the drive pulley 25. The space between the walls 11 and 12 of the tank is supplied with hot water through the pipe 26 from the feed header 18. The regular curvature of the tank wall in the lower portion is interruptedto form a trough -27 wlthin which is mounted a rotary shaft .28 having thereon helical blades 29 constituting of the same a screw conveyer. *At one end -the trou h 27 is tapped by a discharge pipe 30 provided with a suitable valve 31. The hollow shaft 15 is likewise provided with radial arms 32 connected at their outer ends by means of, blades or scrapers 33 arranged at an appropriate distance from the shaft 15 so as to operate closely adjacent the wall. of thetank, insu-- lated as shown.

lnoperation, the stock after rendering is run into the tank at 13 and-hot water at a temperature of 140 degrees is allowed to circulate through the coil 23, 24, being in-' troduced through the pipe 20, whereby to maintain a proper temperature in. the mass during clarifying. l The shaft is not rotated,

so that the coil is stationary and thestock remains quiescent within the tank. After clarification,the valve 31 is openedand the underlying water is allowed to drain. off. When oil appears at the outlet, the valve is closed. Warm water at a temperature of about 90 degrees is then introduced from the pipe 21 to the coil 23, 24, and the material is permitted to stand for about 24 hours or less, during which time the aging or seeding takes place. At the completion of this Having reference to Fig. 3, substantially the same operations previously described are carried out in a cylindrical tank having a. vertical axis and with the lower portion thereof of conical. or hopper construction. Here the vertical shaft 15, hollow as in the former case, is arranged to be supplied alternatively with steam, hot water, or warm water. As in the former case the shaft may be hollow throughout and the pipe coils 23 24 may be tapped to said shaft and revolved therewith, or the lower portion of the shaft 15 may be solid and the pipe coils 23, 24 may be stationary within the cylinder and supplied with fluid by being tapped Tapped off from the hollow shaft 15 on to the upper hollow portion of the shaft, the

water discharging at 24 into a receptacle In this form of construction-the operation a 3 is precisely the same as that described with reference to Figs. 1 and 2 except that the screw conveyer 29 is constantly in motion andthus assists in the breaking of the stock in addition to its function ofdischarging of the stock to the outlet pipe 30 when the valve 31 is opened.

The present inventlon has many other ad-- vantages inherent therein such as the'saving .of room space, the saving of steam for heat- Y ing and maintaining rooms at the proper temperature required where clarifying, aging and breaking is done at room temperature, and the saving of stock otherwise wasted in the cleansing of tanks after trans fer of the stock from one to another. In one plant alone the installation of the present invention has resulted in a saving of many thousand dollars per year in steam and waste, the jacketed tank permittin specially heated rooms to be dispensed wit and enabling-the walls to be heated after discharging to melt the adhering stock and insure the complete emptying of the tank before cleansing.

I claim:

1. A combined clarifier, seeder and braker for oleo stock comprising a tank, a pipe-coil coaxially arranged withinjthe tank, independent sources of supply of hot and cold fluid to the coil, scrapers arranged adjacent the tank walls, means to rotate the pipe and scrapers, and an upper inlet and a lower outlet for the stock.

2. A combined clarifier, seeder and breaker for oleo stock comprising a tank, a hollow shaft extending therethrough, a pipe arranged within the tank about the hollow shaft and in intercommunication therewith, independent sources of supply of hot and cold water to the pipe, means to rotate the shaft and pipe and an upper inlet and a lower outlet for the stock.

3. A combined clarifier, seeder and breaker for oleo stock comprising a cylindrical tank, a hollow shaft extending therethrough, a pipe coil coaxially arranged within the tank about the hollow shaft and in intercommunication with the latter, independent sources of supply of hot and cold being constricted in its lower part, a screw conveyer in the constricted part, and means to rotate the screw conveyer.

4. A combined clarifier, breaker for oleo stock comprising acylindrical tank, a shaft extending therethrough,

a pipe coil coaxially arranged within the tank about the shaft, independent sources of supply of hot and cold water to the coil,

means to rotate the shaft and pipe, an upper inlet and a lower outlet for the stock, a trough in the lower part of the tank leading to the outlet, and a screw conveyer in the combined clarifier, seeder andseeder and a to the coil, scrapers arranged adjacent the tank walls, means to rotate the shaft and pipe and scrapers, an upper inlet and a lower outlet for the stock, a trough in the lower part of the tank leading to the outlet, and a screw conveyer in the trough, and means to rotate the screw conveyer.

- GUY L. NOBLE. Witnesses:

ABRAM B. STEVENSON,

THOMAS J. KEOGH. 

